Coffee and chocolate

Erme

miggy wrote: »

Borrow someone else's kitchen?

Not mine! You yourself are very welcome but not with Environmental Health in tow.

Seriously though you seem to be a pretty good cook.

I just have some seriously amazing cookbooks :j...like Women's weekly student one (fab for snickerdoodles) and the dairy one and martha stewart etc...and with the right recipe (came with the magimix) bread is a doddle in the FP/KC...

miggy wrote: »

I give in - virtual chocolate is allowed in Lent isn't it?!

Several packets of virtual Wagon Wheels are now open - please help yourselves! Coffee is nearly ready, there's tea in the pot and I've got squirty cream and marshmallows if anyone would like a hot choc?

Pull up a chair, the fire is lit in the grate, the wind can howl all it likes outside, we have chocolate and coffee. Now all we need is someone to tell a story...

Nope sins of the heart so I hereby stamp down on Virtual Wagon Wheels in lent LOL...remember the one about adultery? If you even look at a woman and have adulterous thoughts you are having adultery or even like the one about anger and killing your brother (NT - pardon the paraphrase)? Virtual chocolate in lent is surely sinning....not that I do lent (don't do xmas either :T) but I can appreciate the temptation....

You've one alternative - remember the sabbath to keep holy and buy 3 boxes of wagon wheels on Saturday :j.....of course that would be greed and indulgency (she just thinks) so maybe just 1 packet and have that just on Sabbath (first day of the week - you might call it Sunday. I call it Sabbath or the Lord's Day)...

Interesting debate....to have virtual choc or nae in Lent?

E

miggy

BlushingRose wrote: »

1) Get up
2) Get dressed
3) Switch on the pc
4) make a Lemsip
5) Log in to MSE
6) It's 11pm, go to bed :rotfl:

Sounds like a great list to me! Hope you're feeling better?

miggy

Erme wrote: »

Nope sins of the heart so I hereby stamp down on Virtual Wagon Wheels in lent LOL...remember the one about adultery? If you even look at a woman and have adulterous thoughts you are having adultery or even like the one about anger and killing your brother (NT - pardon the paraphrase)? Virtual chocolate in lent is surely sinning....not that I do lent (don't do xmas either :T) but I can appreciate the temptation....

You've one alternative - remember the sabbath to keep holy and buy 3 boxes of wagon wheels on Saturday :j.....of course that would be greed and indulgency (she just thinks) so maybe just 1 packet and have that just on Sabbath (first day of the week - you might call it Sunday. I call it Sabbath or the Lord's Day)...

Interesting debate....to have virtual choc or nae in Lent?

E

LOL - this could be very deep - though of course as you so rightly point out, the Church calendar isn't a biblical command, and nowhere does it say we have to forego chocolate. It's what's underlying that matters.

I hereby stamp down on Virtual Wagon Wheels in lent LOL

Messy.

BlushingRose

miggy wrote: »

Sounds like a great list to me! Hope you're feeling better?

Weirdly I'm feeling both better and worse....

miggy

BlushingRose wrote: »

Weirdly I'm feeling both better and worse....

?!

Perhaps that means you're working your way through it?

miggy

• Sort out things for homegroup - NO PROGRESS
• Write to M and A - NO
• Sort out recipes for raffle prizes - NO
• Transfer money if I can work out how to do it -NO

And to add to it:

• make bread (Mr T is now charging 30p for fresh yeast ) - DONE
• make pasta (yay I now have a pasta machine - but haven't used it yet) - NO
• Find a recipe to use my pasta in - MADE ONE UP
• tidy kitchen - DONE ENOUGH TO WORK THERE

Also done four loads of washing and three trips into town, posted DD's parcels and had a chat with DH about the impending changes at his work. Musical chairs with 20% of the chairs getting taken away. There's no point worrying - and interestingly enough our Bible study notes at the moment have just mentioned about focusing on God and not on material needs because God knows them and if we focus on him, he'll sort out the details.

Now that can be a very big step of faith!

On an MS level I've added a whole 11p to my Clubcard and made dinner with a nice selection of things we had in anyway - then DD came and made a different lot of ingredients into something yummy looking so all in all some good MS cooking going on in the Miggy house today!

I've also finished off some more of the backlog of stored food which is good (soup now in the freezer and bread in the bread bin) - but overall it needs more work. Muffy and co - I still have most of the things off that top shelf! :rotfl:

I had an idea where I might have put the card reader. Can I be bothered to check?

Hovel_lady

miggy wrote: »

I had an idea where I might have put the card reader. Can I be bothered to check?

Go on, be brave and check
Let us know....

miggy

Hovel_lady wrote: »

Go on, be brave and check
Let us know....

I checked.

It wasn't.

BlushingRose

miggy wrote: »

interestingly enough our Bible study notes at the moment have just mentioned about focusing on God and not on material needs because God knows them and if we focus on him, he'll sort out the details.

I really need to try and do this. I'm terrible at handing over any type of control, even to Him

miggy

BlushingRose wrote: »

I really need to try and do this. I'm terrible at handing over any type of control, even to Him

As someone (I don't know who) said, 'I didn't say it would be easy. I said it would be worth it'.

Having got myself in terrible trouble trying to do things in my own strength, I know I have this tendency myself, and yes, it's really really hard not to take the reins ourselves!